Method of attaching fur strips to body material.



F. T. S'IRUBEBK.

METHOD or ATTACHING FUR STRIPS T0 BODY MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6. IQIB.

Patented J. H, 1919.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANs'll. Srnijnncn, a subject of the King of Sweden, residin at Beachmont, in the county of Sufiollr an State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Attaching Fur Strips to Body Mation, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

'lhis invention relates primarily to a' method of stitching fur to the tops of house slippers to produce a roll-like ornamented finish enveloping the upper edge of the slipper. Heretofore, the attaching of fur to the top edge of a house slipper has been a slow process involving hand-stitching; it being considered ineapedient to utilize any known type of stitch-forming mechanism for the purpose, for the reason that the pile-libers which project outwardly in various directions are in the way of the sewing needle and seriously interfere with the handling and stitching of the work by a machine.v

An object of the present invention is to devise a process whereby the fur may be more vquiclrly attached to the body-material than heretofore. r

A further object of the invention is to provide a process of attaching the fur, whereby hand-stitching operations may be entirely eliminated.

A further ob'ect of the invention is to devise a process of attachin fur to body-Inaterial whereby the pile-fiers may be kept under control and held out of the range of action of the stitching instrumentalities while the backing strip which supports the pile-fibers is being stitched about the edge of the body-material; the pile-fibers to be subsequently released and permitted to expand into a roll-like form enveloping the backing strip and the edge of the body-material.

With the above objects in view, the strip of fur or pile-fabric is subjected to a preliminary basting operation, preferably performed on an ordinary singleor two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine fitted with a titi special guide for bending the fur. across the line of seam-formation, whereby series of readily raveling stitches such as made by machines of this type are formed at opposite edges of the fur-strip; the stitches serving to bind down the bent over portions of the pile-fibers along the opposite edges of the strip and compress the fur toward the censtitches heep'the pile-fibers at the edges of the fur-strip under control and hold them in their inwardly bent positions away from the margins of the backing strip.

It then becomes a simple matter to stitch one edge of the backing strip to the edge of the body-material to be ornamented and thereafter fold the backing strip "about said edgeand stitchit to final position enveloping the edge of body-material. he the fur is held bent away from the lines where the stitching is to be done, it will be obvious that these operations may be performed by a sewingmachine of the usual type having a reciprocating needle and suitable feeding mechanism. After the fur-strip has been secured to the body-material, the basting stitches may be easily raveled out or otherwise removed, thus permitting the confined "cure the pile-fibers in bent over condition.

Fig. dis a cross-section along the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. a is a cross-section of the basted fur strip. Fig. 5 illustrates the step of stitching one edge of the basted fur strip to an edge of body-material. Fig. 6 illustrates the roduct after the other edge of the fur strip has been stitched to position and Fig. 7 illustrates the finished product after the basting stitches have been removed.

in carrying out the present method a-strip of fur comprisin a backing strip 1 which supports interme iate its opposite marginal portions 2-2 the pile-fibers 3 is subjected to a preliminary bastin operation in which two rows of basting stitches 4-4.- are formed across the base portions of the pile-fibers at the opposite edges of the fur-strip to secure said fibers in inwardly bent positions, as shownin Fig. 4. This operation may be quickly and conveniently performed by resenting the fur-strip to a sewing mac ine fitted up in accordance with the disclosure of my copending application, @erial No. 238,553, filed herewith, and comprising a reciprocating needle 5, presser-foot fi, edgeguide 7 and fur-guide 8, the latter acting to bend over the pile-fibers and direct them under the resser-foot in bent over condition so that the stitches 4 will be laid ,across the base-portions of the pile-fibers, as illustrated. An edge 2 of the basted fur strip is next superimposed upon an ed e 8 of bodymaterial 9 and secured to t e latter by stitches 10. This operation may be conveniently performed by presenting the superimposed plies to an ordinary straightaway stitching machine comprising the usual reciprocating needle 11 and resser-foot 12, as shown in Fig. 5; the rig t or outer side of the body-fabric being uppermost and the pile-fibers 3 being between the plies 1 and 9.

The fur-strip is next folded about the stitches 10 and the edge 8 0f the body-material, and the unsecured edge 2 of the backing strip is stitched down to the body-material at 13, Fig. 6. It will be readily appreciated that since the pile-fibers are held under control by the basting stitches 4, they are prevented from interfering with the formation and drawing up of the stitches 13, even though the latter are m'ade'by the reciprocating needle and complemental loop-taking means of an ordinary sewing machine. The basting stitches 4 may now be raveled out or otherwise removed, thereby releasing the pile-fibers and permitting the latter to expand into the finished roll-like form as shown in Fig. 7.

It will. be seenthat the fur-strip forms a binding for the edge 8 of the body-material 9 and, of course,may be applied to said edge 8 without necessarily attaching it to the body-material in two stages. The specific manner of securing the basted fur-strip as a binding about the edge of the body-material is immaterial to the invention in its broader aspect, since the basted fur-strip may be stitched with substantially the same case as an ordinary binding strip and without the fur getting in the way of the sewing needle.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is 1. The method of attaching fur or pilefabric tobody-material which consists; in basting down the base-portions of the pilefibers along an edge of said pile-fabric; in

stitching the basted pile-fabric to position upon the body-material; and lastly in removing the basting stitches, thereby permitting the confined pile-fibers to expand to finished position.

2. The method of attaching a strip of fur o r pile-fabric tobody-material which con-' sists; 1n bastmg down the base-portions of I the pile-fibers in inwardly bent positions along the edges of said strip of pile-fabric; in stitching the basted strip of plle-fabric to position enveloping an edge of the bodymaterial; and lastly in removing the basting stitches, thereby permitting the confined pile-fibers to expand into roll-like form.

3. The method of attaching a strip of fur or pile-fabric to body-material whlch con sists; in basting down the base-portions of the pile-fibers in inwardly bent positions along theedges of said strip; in stitching an edge of the basted fur-strip in superposed position upon an edge of body-material; in folding the fur-strip about the line of stitches securing it to the body-material and stitching it to final position enveloping the edge .Of body-material; and lastly in removing the basting stitches, thereby permitting the confined pile-fibers to expand into roll-like form.

4. The method of attaching a strip of fur or pile-fabric to body-material which consists; in presenting an edge of the pile-fabric to a chain-stitch sewing machine adapted to bend laterally of the line of seam-formation and baste down the pile-fibers along an edge of the pile-fabric; in presenting the basted pile-fabric in assembled relation with a ply of body-material to a sewing machine to form a line of stitches adjacent the basting stitches; in securing the opposite ed e of the fur-strip to body-material; and last y in pulling out the basting stitches, thereby permitting the pile-fibers to expand to finished position.

5. The method of attaching a strip of fur or pile-fabric to body-material which consists; in presenting an edge of the pile-fabric to a chain-stitch sewing machine adapted to bend over laterally of the line of seamformation and baste down the pile-fibers along an edge of the pile-fabric; in presenting the basted pile fabric with one of its edge in superposed relation with an edge of bodymaterial to a sewing machine to form a line of stitches joining said superposed edges; in

folding the strip of pile-fabric about the edge of bod -material and presenting it to a sewing mac ine to form a line'of stitches securing the unsecured edge of the fur strip to the body-material; and lastly in pulling out the basting stitches.

6. The method of attaching a fur-strip as a binding for an edge of body-material, which consists in basting down the base portions of the pile-fibers along the opposite edges of the fur-strip; in stitching the basted fur-strip to body-materia basting stitches.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

FRANS T. sTRoBEcK.

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